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What Can A St Louis Personal Injury Lawyer Do For Me?

If you are hurt in a car accident in Missouri or Illinois, you know that the true cost of the losses can never be measured. The pain of a serious injury can last the rest of your life.

Money will never be enough to make up for what you’ve endured. But the laws in Missouri and Illinois make the driver who caused the crash responsible for your losses. The St Louis Personal Injury Lawyers at the Mueller Law Practice can help with your case.

Types and Causes of Car Accidents

The majority of auto accidents involve a:

• Crash between two or more vehicles, including cars, trucks, tour buses and motorcycles
• Crash with fixed objects, including guard rails, light poles and parked cars
• Collisions with pedestrians
• Rollover accidents
• Collisions with bike riders
• Crashes with parked trucks
• Accidents involving deer or other animals
• Collisions with trains

The rules of the road, including speed limit laws and right-of-way laws, are designed to protect motorists, pedestrians and bicycle riders. If everyone drove carefully and obeyed all of the rules of the road, there would be virtually no car accidents.

And even in this imperfect world of distracted driving, if insurance companies paid the claims fairly, there would be no need for a St Louis Personal Injury Lawyer to help you. 

Unfortunately, people make careless choices and dangerous driving mistakes every day. These mistakes can lead to deadly car wrecks or to accidents that cause serious injuries.

Common types of behavior that lead to car accidents include:

• Speeding: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) cites speeding as a top cause of car wrecks throughout the U.S. Speeding accidents can happen even when the speed limit is not exceeded if a driver goes too fast to be safe under current road and weather conditions. In fact, only 55 percent of speeding-related accidents involve a driver going over the speed limit.

• Distracted driving: Distraction.gov reports that 416,000 people were hurt in 2010 alone as a result of drivers who were distracted. A full 18 percent of all crashes during this time period involved a distracted driver. Cell phone use and texting tend to be the most dangerous of the distracted driving behaviors and a recent NHTSA survey indicated that there are as many as 660,000 people using a cell phone on U.S. roadways at any given moment. Other distracted driving behaviors can include grooming, eating, reading a map or using a GPS.

• Drowsy driving: The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently conducted a study of more than 147,000 drivers in 19 different states and D.C. and found that 4.2 percent of all drivers admitted to dozing off behind the wheel in the prior 30 days.

• Driver inexperience: The National Safety Council reports that driver inexperience is the top cause of teen car accidents. Teens, unfortunately, are three times as likely as adult drivers to be involved in a car accident that causes injury.

• Drunk Driving: The CDC reports that 30 people die each day in the United States due to intoxicated driving.

• Aggressive Driving: The AAA Foundation of Traffic Safety reports that aggressive driving is a potential cause of up to 56 percent of fatal U.S. car wrecks. The NHTSA defines aggressive driving as: failing to yield, disregarding traffic control signs or signals, tailgating, illegal or unsafe passing and/or weaving in and out of lanes.

Accidents can also be caused by vehicle malfunctions or road design or maintenance defects. Problems with vehicle components, for example, can be a car accident cause, especially when trucks are involved. When there is a vehicle defect, road design or road maintenance problem, the company or entity responsible can be held legally liable for injuries.

Injured? Call a St Louis Personal Injury Lawyer at the Mueller Law Practice for free 24-7: (314) 962-5100

Taking Legal Action After a Car Wreck

In every crash, it is important to determine if one or more drivers was to blame, if there were vehicle problems or if there was an issue with the road.

The person or entity that caused the car accident can be legally required to compensate accident victims for all losses including:

• Past and future medical bills and costs or medical costs incurred prior to death
• Wages lost due to missed work, vacation days or sick days
• A reduction in income or a permanent loss of income due to injuries or death
• Pain and suffering
• Anxiety and emotional distress
• Wrongful death damages
• Compensation for loss of companionship

Accident victims can obtain monetary damages for these types of losses in one of two ways: by settling a case with an insurance company or through a personal injury lawsuit. In either situation, it is up to the accident victim to prove he or she is entitled to damages.

The stronger your claim, the more likely it is that the insurance company will settle or that you will prevail in court. As such, you need to begin building a car accident case as soon as you can after the accident. This means you need an experienced car accident lawyer right away.

We have over 80 years of combined personal injury experience. Since 1959, a St Louis Personal Injury Lawyer at the Mueller Law Practice has provided caring and professional personal injury legal advice in Missouri and Illinois. We represent working people and families whose lives have been changed after serious injury in an accident or injury.

Your call and consultation for your case are always free. If you have been involved in a St Louis Personal Injury Accident, contact a St Louis personal injury lawyer at the Mueller Law Practice.

If you have suffered an accident or injury, call a St Louis personal injury lawyer at the Mueller Law Practice, LLC, for a free case evaluation: (314) 421-4441. Speak with live attorney about your claim. Evenings and Weekends: (314) 962-5100.

We offer free phone consultations 24/7, and no fees or costs. At the Mueller Law Practice, we listen to you.

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Injured? Call a St Louis Personal Injury Lawyer at the Mueller Law Practice for free 24-7: (314) 962-5100